Comments on: Open Houses… http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/103/103 Phoenix Real Estate -- Anything and everything about it. Plus random musings... Now with Phoenix area MLS Listings Search! Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:40:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/103/103#comment-34051 Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:22:47 +0000 http://www.buygilberthomes.com/?p=103#comment-34051 "FSBO" - apparently you didn't read the article. And at least in this market, the number of people going FSBO has reduced significantly. But then again, I don't run a site targeting FSBOs. Nor do I advertise my services on your site. I've removed the link in your comment as it violates our comment policy on advertising. “FSBO” - apparently you didn’t read the article. And at least in this market, the number of people going FSBO has reduced significantly.

But then again, I don’t run a site targeting FSBOs.

Nor do I advertise my services on your site.

I’ve removed the link in your comment as it violates our comment policy on advertising.

]]> By: FSBO http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/103/103#comment-34046 FSBO Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:02:29 +0000 http://www.buygilberthomes.com/?p=103#comment-34046 The idea of open houses is great in down market. But now days FSBO is also getting very popular in real estate market The idea of open houses is great in down market. But now days FSBO is also getting very popular in real estate market

]]> By: Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/103/103#comment-11278 Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy Thu, 02 Nov 2006 15:45:57 +0000 http://www.buygilberthomes.com/?p=103#comment-11278 Cyndi - I'd be interested in hearing how it works out for you. Please keep us posted! Cyndi - I’d be interested in hearing how it works out for you. Please keep us posted!

]]> By: Cyndi Sloop http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/103/103#comment-11272 Cyndi Sloop Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:00:07 +0000 http://www.buygilberthomes.com/?p=103#comment-11272 Thanks for sharing this article. I have wanted to do something like this with other agents listing in a subdivision (I have a listing in) for a while. This was the push to contact them. There's been several foreclosures in this newer addition which has made it difficult for other homeowners to sell at a more realistic price. My listing is 2800sq. ft. for $149,888 which makes that about $52 a sq. ft. The house is only 4 years old. I can't believe I'm having such a challenge generating an interest. Many of the other listings are just as competitive. So again, thanks. I just wrote the email to the other agents and am waiting to hear their responses. Thanks for sharing this article. I have wanted to do something like this with other agents listing in a subdivision (I have a listing in) for a while. This was the push to contact them. There’s been several foreclosures in this newer addition which has made it difficult for other homeowners to sell at a more realistic price. My listing is 2800sq. ft. for $149,888 which makes that about $52 a sq. ft. The house is only 4 years old. I can’t believe I’m having such a challenge generating an interest. Many of the other listings are just as competitive. So again, thanks. I just wrote the email to the other agents and am waiting to hear their responses.

]]> By: On Chicken Little, Booming & Crashing, Insanity and Herd-minded Snakes at The Phoenix Real Estate Guy http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/103/103#comment-11182 On Chicken Little, Booming & Crashing, Insanity and Herd-minded Snakes at The Phoenix Real Estate Guy Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:53:02 +0000 http://www.buygilberthomes.com/?p=103#comment-11182 [...] Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy Oct 25th, 2006 at 9:17 pm Seth -Thanks for visiting and commenting. I’ll attempt to address your points one at a time: The Salon article: difficult to glean much from that, as it’s full of non-functional links. My calling the media “Chicken Little” when it comes to how they portray housing market news is certainly not original, but I didn’t borrow that idea from David Lereah. It’s simply a product of my overall opinion of the media in general. I try to avoid politics on this blog, so let’s leave it at this… my general disdain for the media began years ago with what is, in my opinion, their overriding tendency to go way left of center when reporting “news”. That spills over into how they report pretty much anything. But they are in business (for now) to sell newspapers, and sensationalism and headlines sell newspapers. The Phoenix Bubble Isn’t Bursting” article on my website being a product of the NAR: True statement, and it’s clearly marked as such. Do I provide a “counter”? Nope. Do I explain that it’s from the NAR and may be biased? Nope. Being clearly marked, I feel no need to point out who wrote it. I also assume my readers and site visitors have the intelligence to know that the NAR may be biased in their presentation. I don’t think it’s my job to provide, nor do people really care to see, a point/counter-point argument for every bit of data posted either here or on my website. Could my assumptions be flawed? Certainly. My quarterly reviews are a year behind: Correct again. I’ll get a new one up someday (though it will be in a completely different format). It’s been on my to do list for, oh about a year. You wonder how I have the time to update the blog so regularly and not them? In many ways, the website quarterly reports have been replaced by regular blog posts on market stats. I actually made a conscious decision to put less of my personal opinion (”Spin” to use your term) into the quarterly reports and just reports the facts on this blog and my site–so people can form their own opinion. I frequently provide basic market stats on this blog here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here. (I probably missed a couple.) I also provide listings and sales stats on the website. This page has monthly listings, sales, and days on market data for all of 2004, 2005, and 2006 to date, in addition to yearly summaries from 2002 - 2005. You may also be interested in the 2006 quarterly reports on the stats page. I didn’t write them, but they do contain some interesting sales/listings stats. [...] [...] Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy Oct 25th, 2006 at 9:17 pm Seth -Thanks for visiting and commenting. I’ll attempt to address your points one at a time: The Salon article: difficult to glean much from that, as it’s full of non-functional links. My calling the media “Chicken Little” when it comes to how they portray housing market news is certainly not original, but I didn’t borrow that idea from David Lereah. It’s simply a product of my overall opinion of the media in general. I try to avoid politics on this blog, so let’s leave it at this… my general disdain for the media began years ago with what is, in my opinion, their overriding tendency to go way left of center when reporting “news”. That spills over into how they report pretty much anything. But they are in business (for now) to sell newspapers, and sensationalism and headlines sell newspapers. The Phoenix Bubble Isn’t Bursting” article on my website being a product of the NAR: True statement, and it’s clearly marked as such. Do I provide a “counter”? Nope. Do I explain that it’s from the NAR and may be biased? Nope. Being clearly marked, I feel no need to point out who wrote it. I also assume my readers and site visitors have the intelligence to know that the NAR may be biased in their presentation. I don’t think it’s my job to provide, nor do people really care to see, a point/counter-point argument for every bit of data posted either here or on my website. Could my assumptions be flawed? Certainly. My quarterly reviews are a year behind: Correct again. I’ll get a new one up someday (though it will be in a completely different format). It’s been on my to do list for, oh about a year. You wonder how I have the time to update the blog so regularly and not them? In many ways, the website quarterly reports have been replaced by regular blog posts on market stats. I actually made a conscious decision to put less of my personal opinion (”Spin” to use your term) into the quarterly reports and just reports the facts on this blog and my site–so people can form their own opinion. I frequently provide basic market stats on this blog here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here. (I probably missed a couple.) I also provide listings and sales stats on the website. This page has monthly listings, sales, and days on market data for all of 2004, 2005, and 2006 to date, in addition to yearly summaries from 2002 - 2005. You may also be interested in the 2006 quarterly reports on the stats page. I didn’t write them, but they do contain some interesting sales/listings stats. [...]

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